promises, promises!

Oh, now you're going to try to get out of it when you know what kind of serious partiers we are?

what a delightful report. i feel like i'm your traveling companion and i'm having a wonderful time.

What's going on in here? Jude Law and hard partying with hooligans? I've only had time to take a quick scan so I need to come back and have a better read, but I can already see that yk is drooling, janis has fainted, and annhig is shocked. This must have been a good trip!

Now I'm tempted to start inventing interesting scenes, and hope that MC doesn't read this far.

Let's see: As Jude turned to me with a grateful sigh....

The maid had just finished tidying up last of the champagne bottles from our previous night's party when...

What is it about Jude Law? Still, I suppose any actor who can keep a straight face while delivering a marriage proposal(in "The Holiday") that includes the line "I'll admit, I've a rather small package" must have some professional competence.

Normally I don't give Jude Law a thought from one month to the next, and am not interested in celebrities in general. I did like him in Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, and Road to Perdition. All American accents, come to think of it. And he is above average cute.

Why are British actors so good at American accents, but not vice versa? I couldn't sustain a decent British accent for an entire sentence, myself. I suppose you all have to develop an early ear for nuances, and we really don't.

<i>but I can already see that yk is drooling, janis has fainted, and annhig is shocked.</i>

:D

This is what happens when a single trip report includes an opera, a ballet, a mere mention of Jude Law, getting drunk at pubs, and hanging out with football fans...

And I bet there's lots more to come!

More, more, stokebailey! We can hardly wait!

Thanks, Virginia, yk, and all for your kind comments.

As far as getting drunk goes, I can usually hold ~3/4 pint without any serious consequences, if I spread it out over an hr or so.

(a cheap date)

poor Hugh Laurie - apparently he hates doing House's accent, but somehow he keeps signing those contracts.

IMHO, he was MUCH better as Bertie Wooster and the Prince regent.

stokebailey, I'll raise you... I am on the ground after a few sips of alcohol. One time I went out with some colleagues and they ordered for me a LI Iced Tea that comes in a foot-long (or, foot-tall) glass. I drank an inch of it and I was gone for the rest of the night.

Signed,
the cheapest date on earth

ann, I could only sit through House once, for various reasons; only made it that long because I was idly alone in a hotel room, and never would have guessed they'd make the ending QUITE so improbable. Stupid lure of big bucks.

And wasn't Laurie great in those two roles? I need to request Blackadder DVD from the library again.

Someone bought me a LI Tea once, too, yk. They go down smoothly for awhile, don't they? I think I might have to concede the contest to you.

Sorry continuing a bit off-topic. My husband LOVES to watch House (all those reruns on USA Network). I cannot stand that show (for various reasons) for one single second!

Bookmarking!

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful reading! Add "stokebailey" to the list of amazing Fodorite writers.

Just saw "39 Steps" in NYC and particularly enjoyed the 2 guys doing many parts.

More report to come soon??

you're too kind!

Family reunion this weekend, plus I'm still working through a mild case of PTD (post trip depression).

Wasn't the play fun? The London version threw in a few local jokes, like Hannay saying at the beginning that he was so bored he had to do something really trivial and meaningless: go to a West End play.

Really enjoying this report. I would love to duplicate that pub crawl, although I'm a cheaper date than anyone so far.

Are those seats at the Royal Opera House where you have to lean to see the stage similar to the ones at the Palais Garnier in Paris where everyone leans over and by doing so blocks the view of everyone farther down the line?

I'm looking forward to a week in London next month.

Wondering how much an NMS8 equals in US dollars (or in GBP, for that matter).

Hi, Nikki,

Thanks!

I've never had those Palais Garnier seats, but in the ROH lower slips you don't have that. You're looking down and to the side, just you and the other true opera lovers. Everyone leans forward most of the time. Had more of a problem in the ballet seats, really, where a young man in front of me had a bouffant hairdo.

Our lower slips seats were £12, quite the bargain.

Oh, Yes. a NMS8 is roughly $80.